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Quanta Podcast

Susan Valot narrates in-depth news episodes based on Quanta Magazine's articles about mathematics, physics, biology and computer science.

All Episodes about physics

A disk features swirling red and orange lines in the central region and blue and pink lines nearer the edge. The disk appears to bend the space-time fabric around it.

Swirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the Proton

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Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

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Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

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Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields

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New Clues for What Will Happen When the Sun Eats the Earth

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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

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Meet Strange Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons

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Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit

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JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe

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Exoplanets Could Help Us Learn How Planets Make Magnetism

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A shining lightbulb with a cord that’s not plugged in.

Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

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A graphical illustration showing a number of well-known stars in the present-day universe, along with the edge of a far bigger star.

Astronomers Say They Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars

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A bright purple splotch surrounded by concentric purple rings.

Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

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Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’

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A video in which a metallic cube floats above a dark disk as liquid nitrogen evaporates around them

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

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Video in which a white circle appears in the center of a blue starry field and grows until whiteness engulfs the whole image.

How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything

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